tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post7721813484977236883..comments2016-12-09T08:25:17.341-05:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Animal House beanie sporters / TUE 6-1-10 / Hobbyist's knife brand / North-of-the-border grid org / Movie pal of StitchRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23415469561212618132010-06-02T06:27:40.187-04:002010-06-02T06:27:40.187-04:00Sank you! cool post!Sank you! cool post!Alihttp://cheapgeneric.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13091723666507613942010-06-02T06:27:17.280-04:002010-06-02T06:27:17.280-04:00great puzzlegreat puzzlegolfballmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14864189558425473412010-06-02T02:38:34.908-04:002010-06-02T02:38:34.908-04:00@ NDE - nice to see you back here. Nice grep.....@ NDE - nice to see you back here. Nice grep.....retired_chemisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13181126754941899228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21899202870901160582010-06-02T02:38:28.173-04:002010-06-02T02:38:28.173-04:00@Mary Candace: You&#39;re right, my mistake. I alw...@Mary Candace: You&#39;re right, my mistake. I always forget the C in Polish is the &quot;ts&quot; sound. So you&#39;re correct that it&#39;s &quot;vroh-tswav&quot;.Steve Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185067739452052656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56824476524803628202010-06-02T00:34:01.553-04:002010-06-02T00:34:01.553-04:00For a while I had forgotten that we enthusiasts we...For a while I had forgotten that we enthusiasts were geeks. Sometimes it happens when the world seems to fit your form.fergushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26781644732708274872010-06-01T23:17:10.539-04:002010-06-01T23:17:10.539-04:00The advantage of P?T and N?T is they can take the ...The advantage of P?T and N?T is they can take the Y as well...a guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5925373658774154732010-06-01T22:58:52.975-04:002010-06-01T22:58:52.975-04:00@Fergus: d?n looks fine to me; DAN could be either...@Fergus: d?n looks fine to me; DAN could be either &quot;tribe of israel&quot; or the Scrabbly grid-spanning &quot;jiujitsu ranking&quot;.<br /><br />Forgot to mention: 10D:NYS didn&#39;t trouble me because 30 years ago there was an annual high-school math contest the New York State Math League, probably to distinguish it from the NYC league which was a once-every-few-weeks circuit of interschool meets. The statewide contest&#39;s acronym NYSML led to parodies such as DYSML and ABYSML. I see that both NYSML and the NYC contests are still going on a generation-plus later.<br /><br />NDENoam D. Elkiesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26419567320271506302010-06-01T21:23:08.637-04:002010-06-01T21:23:08.637-04:00DAN, DEN, DIN, DON, DUN is a fairly complete array...DAN, DEN, DIN, DON, DUN is a fairly complete array as well. (Don&#39;t like the proper noun though, as common as it is.)fergushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55752715890000182642010-06-01T21:20:29.172-04:002010-06-01T21:20:29.172-04:00I&#39;ve always thought Wroclaw was pronounced &qu...I&#39;ve always thought Wroclaw was pronounced &quot;Vroh-tswav&quot;. Does the C sound like K or TS?Mary Candacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77595832322408714772010-06-01T21:17:44.799-04:002010-06-01T21:17:44.799-04:00HOER may be the way they pronounce the paid lady o...HOER may be the way they pronounce the paid lady of the night in New Jersey. Or that&#39;s how it sounds on the &#39;Sopranos.&#39;<br /><br />In more rarefied climes it rhymes with bore, as in forging one&#39;s way through a tunnel.<br /><br />--<br /><br />[oodomoba, hard to resist]fergushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45669973325918457112010-06-01T21:12:40.179-04:002010-06-01T21:12:40.179-04:00@VincentdeLima, LitDoc, SteveJ - New York actually...@VincentdeLima, LitDoc, SteveJ - New York actually uses NYS in much of its stuff. For instance, I worked for NYSDOCS. It means New York State Department of Corrections. Perhaps to differentiate from NYC. Rex works for SUNY, in which the S goes to the beginning - State University of NY, as opposed to CUNY. Guess ya gotta be there. (P.S. Retiring form NYS is sweet.)<br />My sister who&#39;s lived in MD for most of her life now, also hated the I love NY symbol and called it the iheartny. <br /><br />@LitDoc - started to write OVoid, but thought what if it&#39;s a TOAD instead of a &quot;frog&quot;? How about OVish. Too much like oafish. OVlish. <br /><br />This reminded me of an exercise my Dutch teacher would give us. She would say a series of words that differed only by the vowel, and we had to write them. It&#39;s hard for English speakers, since there are more vowel sounds, and subtler in Dutch. <br /><br />I think I&#39;ll leave HOER and whack (with off) alone today. No, I didn&#39;t!<br /><br />River Pair - the otters floating on their backs holding hands - and OPHELIA on her back - maybe I can put the 2 pictures together. OPHELIA in the middle holding a little paw in each hand.Sfinginoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82485217496932278912010-06-01T20:30:32.465-04:002010-06-01T20:30:32.465-04:00Is it bad that I initially included in the puzzle ...Is it bad that I initially included in the puzzle &quot;BALD&quot; for &quot;Like the proverbial beaver&quot;??? Freudian slip indeed.Ricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24844888178988361302010-06-01T20:14:38.949-04:002010-06-01T20:14:38.949-04:00A bit unusual to have the central theme answer onl...A bit unusual to have the central theme answer only 5 letters long. Yes, the clue for 2D:ASIA was trickier than I&#39;d expect for a Tuesday (though I did guess correctly it was a Roman name for something much smaller than the whole continent). Outside of that, and the rare appearance of 22D:ALANLADD&#39;s full name, not much to say here.<br /><br />Other possibilities besides b?d can be found in one line of Unix incantations:<br /><br /> grep &#39;\&lt;.[aeiou].\&gt;&#39; words | sed &#39;s/./&amp;?/;s/?./?/&#39; | sort | uniq -c | grep 5<br /><br />The extent of the output depends on how big the wordlist &quot;words&quot; is,<br />but besides b?d at least b?g, p?p, p?t seem unimpeachable. Similarly<br /><br /> cat words | sed &#39;s/[aeiou]/?/&#39; | sort | uniq -c | grep 5<br /><br />also yields b?ll, l?st, m?ss, m?te, p?ck (plus derivatives like p?tting and m?ssy), and best of all (though well known) bl?nder.<br /><br />NDENoam D. Elkiesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78918662811186878452010-06-01T18:20:19.253-04:002010-06-01T18:20:19.253-04:00@Steve J: Now I know what that crossed l means--th...@Steve J: Now I know what that crossed l means--thx. The issue is somewhat more than academic to me b/c the Flemmings, my father&#39;s side, came from (upper) Silesia (Schlesien in German), which is traversed by the Oder. Don&#39;t get me wrong--I harbor no irredentist sentiments whatsoever--one just latches on to those aspects of a puzzle that have some personal resonance.Ulrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70827942558990779072010-06-01T18:06:16.934-04:002010-06-01T18:06:16.934-04:00The theme answers were so flat, and unrelated to e...The theme answers were so flat, and unrelated to each other, and figuring out the theme offered no clue to the answers. I might be wrong, but doesn&#39;t this defeat the purpose of a theme?<br /><br />Am I the only one who thought &quot;hoer&quot; was a terrible clue/answer? I was looking for a brand name for a while, and I had no idea what an AGHA was, so I just guessed with a &quot;B&quot; and hoped for the best. A thing that whacks weeds is a HOE. Is a person who uses such a tool really called a &quot;HOER&quot;? What about a shoveller, or, a hammerer? These look more ridiculous, but what&#39;s the difference? Even if we take HOE as a verb, HOER is just a terrible word. Maybe I&#39;m the only one. And maybe I&#39;m just bitter because it was the only square I got wrong in the whole puzzle.Citizen Dainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789010705241919403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21045680909260675442010-06-01T17:49:03.316-04:002010-06-01T17:49:03.316-04:00@foodie ... you stated Xactly what was wrong with ...@foodie ... you stated Xactly what was wrong with this puzzle to me. And I don&#39;t think you&#39;re cranky. I don&#39;t like to criticize, either, but sometimes, like today, the theme answers just were lying there ... in BED ... a PLACETOSLEEP.johohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708487230515532492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78251497153114806712010-06-01T17:29:07.113-04:002010-06-01T17:29:07.113-04:00Had FUTUREFLORA begore FUTUREBLOOM - talk about th...Had FUTUREFLORA begore FUTUREBLOOM - talk about thinking too much...<br /><br />Speaking of NIT picking, the NYTimes had a good article on a non-toxic treatment method involving Cetaphil Cleanser (March 24, 2010). <br /><br />(I wasn&#39;t able to put the link here - anyone care to tell me how to do that?)JenCThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290169184354765840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51731372570854170292010-06-01T17:28:30.144-04:002010-06-01T17:28:30.144-04:00Essentially, a themeless Tuesday. Not much fun.Essentially, a themeless Tuesday. Not much fun.PIXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25469995172457774062010-06-01T16:26:40.040-04:002010-06-01T16:26:40.040-04:00@Joe I agree about OVATE. I also had OVOID.@Joe I agree about OVATE. I also had OVOID.CrazyCatLadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245025301434920905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15461563567965815902010-06-01T16:22:05.062-04:002010-06-01T16:22:05.062-04:00@SteveJ
I surmise the themes were all-caps only be...@SteveJ<br />I surmise the themes were all-caps only because they are such little words, in more ways than one.<br /><br />@archaeoprof<br />What about the Young Frankenstein (or is it<br />&quot;Fronk&#39;-en-steen&quot;) that takes place in Transylvania ... Igor (&quot;EYE-gor&quot;) got the brain that was AB(by)NORMAL?<br /><br />Country Music ... Victoria BANKS.Tinbenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14661395078047234853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19829829171736422682010-06-01T16:20:51.114-04:002010-06-01T16:20:51.114-04:00I HATE OVATE.
In real life, everyone uses &quot;o...I HATE OVATE.<br /><br />In real life, everyone uses &quot;ovoid&quot; or just &quot;oval.&quot;<br /><br />XACTO isn&#39;t bad.<br />Unless you think it&#39;s spelled EXACTO.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17857747515877769718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50616011317483756102010-06-01T16:12:25.740-04:002010-06-01T16:12:25.740-04:00Easy Tuesday puzzle, but had a few bumps along the...Easy Tuesday puzzle, but had a few bumps along the way. Many the same as others.<br />Othello for OPHELIA, Ham up for EMOTE. The worst was Zit for NIT - eew... But that made INDIE Inzie. Fixed it all up quickly enough. Liked FUTURE BLOOM. Hoping I will have many of those in my newly planted garden.CrazyCatLadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245025301434920905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59967612069189769062010-06-01T16:06:21.473-04:002010-06-01T16:06:21.473-04:00Midday report of relative difficulty (see my 7/30/...Midday report of relative difficulty (see my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35115061&amp;postID=3588389571383499624&amp;isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">7/30/2009 post</a> for an explanation of my method):<br /><br />All solvers (median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Tue 8:31, 8:49, 0.97, 45%, Medium<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Tue 4:42, 4:31, 1.04, 69%, Medium-Challengingsanfranman59http://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81639002613385322952010-06-01T16:04:59.887-04:002010-06-01T16:04:59.887-04:00Friendly warning to @SteveJ
This site could ruin ...Friendly warning to @SteveJ<br /><br />This site could ruin your whole week --- <br /><a href="http://www.nycgo.com/" rel="nofollow"><br />Visit NYCgo for official NYC information on travel, hotels, deals and offers like Restaurant Week, and the best restaurants, shops, clubs and cultural ...</a><br /><br />It also suggests:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.iloveny.com" rel="nofollow"> If you&#39;d like to explore the rest of New York State while you&#39;re in the area, visit iloveny.com, the official website for New York State tourism, for information about attractions throughout the state... </a> <br /><br />Note: I&#39;m not saying your position is wrong.<br /><br />.../GlitchGlitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940000404613329056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2033156203240392952010-06-01T15:55:32.006-04:002010-06-01T15:55:32.006-04:00It&#39;s Tuesday in CrossWorld, and we&#39;re all ...It&#39;s Tuesday in CrossWorld, and we&#39;re all a little disappointed.<br /><br />May I add that this puzzle had no references to country music.archaeoprofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956231727789223463noreply@blogger.com